This is the first installment of a monthly column by Rhizome's Contributing Editor Marisa Olson. "Media Studies" will explore timely issues within the broader field of technology. Each post will pay specific attention to the relationship between these subjects and artistic practice. For this column, Marisa provides a reading list on the topic of "Experimental Geography". In recent years, access to geographical tools and data collection has expanded rapidly, allowing many artists to rethink their relationship to the earth and geographical study. This column provides a summation of publications relevant to these developments.
Please join us tomorrow for a panel, organized by Marisa, on "Experimental Geography". Beginning at 3pm in the New Museum's theater, Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, who curated an exhibition of the same title for Independent Curators International, will lead a discussion with artists Lize Mogel and Damon Rich. - Ceci Moss
The following is an initial list of readings that might be of interest to anyone researching experimental geography. It includes key theoretical texts on the nature of space, texts on locative media, and works on radical cartography. Many of them cross over into game theory, cyberfeminism, relations between real and virtual spaces, surveillance, tactical media, psychogeography, situationism, sound art, networked cultures, site-specific installation art, and other related sub-themes. It's tempting to sort these into temporal or topical categories, but to do so might be to inappropriately compartmentalize an ongoing discourse that moves in new directions every day.
This is only a starting point. Please feel free to add texts in the comments. Links to related syllabi would also be a great resource!
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (eds), Else/Where: Mapping -- New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, Univ Minnesota Design Institute, 2006
Saul Albert, "Locative Literacy," Mute, July 12, 2004
Marc Augé, Non-Places: an Introduction to the Anthropology of Supermodernity, London & New York: Verso, 1995
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, Beacon, 1994
Walter Benjamin, "The Author As Producer," New Left Review Issue 62, July-August 1970
Marsha Berry, "Locative media: geoplaced tactics of resistance," International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, 2009
Hakim Bey, "No Go Zone"
Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, Autonomedia, 1985
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture Routledge, London, 1994
Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel (eds.), An Atlas of Radical Cartography, pub. Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2008
Joline Blais, "Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl," Intelligent Agent, Volume 6, Number 2
Julian Bleecker, "A Design Approach for the Geospatial Web," O'Reilly Media, June 2005
Joel Bonnemaison, Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography, I.B. Tauris, 2005
Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, Les Presse Du Reel, 1998
Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko; Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey, Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy, Summer 2008
Victor Burgin, In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture, University of California Press, 1996
Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Verso, 2006
Guy Debord, "Theory of the Derive," International Situationiste #2, 1958
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, 1984
Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control," OCTOBER 59, MIT Press, Winter 1992
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, "Tunable Cities," Architectural Design 68, no. 11/12, November-December 1998
John Fels and Denis Wood, The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World, University Of Chicago Press, 2009
Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias, 1967
Michel Foucault, "Panopticism," in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Vintage Books, 1995
Anne Galloway, "Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and the City." Cultural Studies, Volume 18, Numbers 2‚ 3, pp. 384-408, 2004 [pdf]
Petra Gemeinboeck and Atau Tanaka, "A framework for spatial interaction in locative media", Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, June 04-08, 2006, Paris, France
Kevin Hamilton, "Mobility as Freedom in Critical Art and New Media," 2006
Kevin Hamilton, "Absence in Common: An Operator for the Inoperative Community," (ISEA 2006)
Katharine Harmon, You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003
David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, Routledge, 2001
Emma Hedditch, "Locative Feminism," Mute, September 18, 2005
Drew Hemment (ed) Locative Media Special Issue, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 14, Issue 3
Drew Hemment, "The Locative Dystopia" (2004)
Jeremy Hight, "Narrative Archaeology," Xcp: Streetnotes: Summer 2003
Anthony Hoete, ROAM Reader On The Aesthetics of Mobility, Phaidon/ Black Dog Press, 2002
Jeffrey Kastner (ed), Land & Environmental Art (Themes & Movements), Phaidon, 2005
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Wiley-Blackwell, 1992
Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, New Press, 1998
Lucy Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place, New Press, 1999
Miwon Kwon, One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press, 2004
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City MIT Press, 1960
Tapio Mäkelä, "Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers, Sublime Technologies in Public Spaces, (ISEA 2006)
Lev Manovich, "The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada," 2002 [pdf]
William J. Mitchell, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, MIT Press, 2003
Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, MIT Press, 2004
Trevor Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, Penguin, 2009
Paraskevopoulou, Charitos, Rizopoulos, "Location-specific art practices that challenge the traditional conception of mapping," Art Nodes Issue 8
David Pinder, Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism, Routledge, 2006
Simon Pope, "The Shape of Locative Media," Mute February 9, 2005
Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Basic Books, 2002
Irit Rogoff, Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture, Routledge, 2000
Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, MIT Press, 1998
Alison Sant, "Redefining The Basemap," Intelligent Agent, Volume 6, Number 2
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, Vintage, 1976
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space, University of California Press, 1987
Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Jack Flam, ed.), University of California Press, 1996
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust, Penguin, 2001
Erika Suderburg, Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Pall Thayer "On narrative, abstract and location: A few words on lacation-based data in art," 2004 [pdf]
Nato Thompson (ed), Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Anthony Townsend, "Envisioning the ubiquitous city"
Anthony Townsend "Digitally Mediated Urban Space: New Lessons for Design" Praxis (2004) [pdf]
Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, University of Minnesota, 1977
Marc Tuters (ed), "Acoustic Space: Trans Cultural Mapping," Riga: The Center for New Media Culture RICX, 2004
Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis, "Beyond Locative Media," Networked Publics blog
Urban Tapestries essay collection
Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedber, Place: Networked Place, Networked Publics blog
Kazys Varnelis, The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, Actar, 2009
Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1977
Denis Wood, The Power of Maps, Guilford Press, 1992
Charles Baudelaire, "Tableaux Perisiens" from Fleurs du mal, 1861. [scroll down to the poems in the "Tableaux Parisiens" section]
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Harvard University Press, 2002.
Drain Magazine, Issue 11: Psychogeography - October, 2008 - Vol. 5, No.2
Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons eds. Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Metropolis Books, 2006.
James Corner "The Agency of Mapping." from Mappings, edited by James Cosgrove. Reaktion, 1999
The book that no one has written about Henri Chombart de Lauwe.
de Landa, Manuel "1000 years of Non-Linear History." Zone Books, 2000
Hey.
FYI Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim bey is an admitted paedophile and the texts you cite might be read so as to forward a paedophilic apologist agenda.
http://libcom.org/library/paedophilia-and-american-anarchism-the-other-side-of-hakim-bey
and less so…
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rawilson/browse_thread/thread/caa685ac9fdd5ee9
I don't deny that the texts are intellectually valuable and interesting but any reading is probably enriched, as with the other authors by bearing his/her particular politics etc… in mind.
Politics of Virtual Space Bibliography, compiled by Andrea Fiore and Stephan Barmentloo for Scopic Regimes of Virtuality, MA seminar, University of Amsterdam:
http://scopicregimesvirtuality.wordpress.com/bibliography-politics-of-virtual-space/
Mark Monmonier How to Lie with Maps
also, chunks of this are pertinent:
Brian Holmes Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering
Alan M. MacEachren's How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design
Not sure if these are experimental but they often made me think of space in way I hadn't previous to reading them:
Spaces of Capital by David Harvey
Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition by Steven Graham
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City by Neil Smith
Mutations published by Zone Books.
The World Without Technology
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/03/the_world_witho.php